Philipp hieronymus



(No Model.)

P. HIERONYMUS.

GALVANIG BATTERY.

A No. 461,262.

Patented Oct. 13,1891.

j L (L A TTU/HV 9 Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIPP HIERONYMUS, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

GALVAN IC l BATTERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,262, dated October 13, 1891.

Application filed February 12, 1891.- Serial No. 381,168. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIPP HIERONYMUS, a citizen of the Empire of Germany, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Batteries, of which the following is a specification.

The dry batteries used heretofore had the disadvantage that they did not last as long as the ordinary Leclanch or other wet batteries.

The object of my invention is to provide a dry battery in which the elements of the various kinds of Leclanch batteries can be utilized, and also to provide a battery in which the quantity of water and sal-ammoniac is not all used at the start, but is gradually utilized as the battery Ais being used.

The invention consists in a battery constructed with a jar having a partition a short distance above the bottom, a Water-compartment being formed belowsaid partition, the usual battery elements resting upon the partition, and a wick extending from the watercompartment up to said battery elements to supply them with moisture.

The invention also consists in the const-ruction and combination of parts and details, which will be fully described hereinafter, and nally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing a vertical longitudinal sectional View of my `improved dry battery is shown. i

The glass jar A is provided about one-quarter of the length above its bottom with an interior ledge A for supporting a disk B of wood, having a central aperture B', through which the heavy wick C passes, the lower end of the wick resting on the bottom of the jar.,

' vided with the side apertures F', through which the branches C of the wick can pass. Said carbon cylinder is filled with manganese, and the top is closed by a stopper G of cork. The carbon cylinder is surrounded by alayer H, consisting of about one hundred parts of `inder.

ficient water to form a paste. Said layer H is surrounded by a cylinder J of zinc, pro'H which a covering or sealing-layer M2, of gypsum and sal-ammoniac, is placed. A like layer M of gypsum and sal-ammoniac is provided below the pure salammoniac. Two glass tubes L L pass through the said annular layer 0f sal-ammoniac and gypsum and sal-amnioniac through apertures in the cotton layers D and through apertures in the wooden disk B,'so as to permit iilling the bottom part of the glass jar with water and give a Vent for the escape of the air. The upper ends of the glass tubes L L are. closed by rubber stoppers M, which .are retained by a clamp N, fastened to the zinc cylinder and carrying one outgoing wire. A clamp O for the other wire is applied on the upper projecting part of the carbon cylinder.

The water is drawn by the wick C from the water-compartment into a carbon cylinder F and into the layer of gypsum, sal-ammoniac, and water surrounding said carbon-cylinder and in turn `surrounded by the zinc cylinder. The water can only pass out of the Watercompartment by capillary attraction through the wick. The pure sal-ammoniac surrounding partly the zinc cylinder can pass through the slots J of said cylinder into the space between the zinc cylinder and the carbon cyl` The paste between the zinc andcarbon cylinders or at top and -bottom of the pure sal-ammoniac between zinc cylinder or glass jar at all times remains soft on account of the formation of ammonium sulphate and calcium chloride. The gases that ca usepolarization can thus escape, and thus do not interfere with the proper action of the battery.

In 'case all the water has been consuned the water-compartment can easily be filled after the removal of the Stoppers M with the clamp N.

This battery has all the advantages of an ordinary dry battery and none of the disadvantages of an ordinary wet battery, such as Leclanch. Y

Having thus described my invention, I

gypsum, ten parts of sal-anunoniac, and sufclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In an electric battery, the combination, with a jar, of a partition held a short distance above the bottom of the same, electric elements resting on said partition, a tube for filling the lower part 'of the jar With Water, a vent-tube, and awick for conducting the Water from the lower part of the jar to the elements, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, With a jar, of a partition a short distance above the bottom of the same, zinc and carbon cylinders resting on said partition, and a wick passing from the bottom part of the jar into the carbon cylinder and through apertures in the sides of the same, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a jar, of a partition a short distance above the bottom of the same, zinc and carbon cylinders resting, on said partition, a wick passing from the bottom part of the jar through the carbon cylinder and through apertures in the sides of the same, a layer-'of pure sal-ammoniac, top and bottom layers of' gypsum and sal-ammoniac, Water surrounding the zinc cylinder, and a layer of sal-ammoniac and gypsum between the zinc and carbon cylinders, substantially as set forth.

4. vThe combination, With a jar, of a partition a short distance above the bottom of the same, zinc and carbon cylinders resting on said partition, aWick passing from the bottom part of the jar through said carbon cylinder and apertures in the sides of the same, and two tubes eXtending-Withil'i the jar froln the top of the same through the said partition to theWater-comp'artmeut below said partitition, substantially as set forth.v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in ypresence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIPP I-IIERONYMUS. Vitnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, CHARLES BLES. 

